The favorite thing for new officials to take office is to check the local customs, so that they can quickly understand the local division of forces through the location of the house and the discussion of the people, and experience the most straightforward people's customs and customs.

On the afternoon of the day Cao Wei came to Fuping County, he led Qian Ning and Zhang Meng to check the local customs and customs, and also had a general understanding of Fuping County. The division of forces in the entire Fuping County is actually very simple, and the county is basically controlled by the three families of Xie, Feng, and Qiao.

This Xie naturally refers to the county respect Xie Ping, Cao Wei's cheap father-in-law has been the county magistrate of the county for more than ten years, has cultivated many henchmen and cronies in the county, married the daughter of the Feng family, and has a very good personal relationship with the head of the Qiao family, basically beating Fuping County into an iron plate. In addition, he treats the people well on weekdays, so he is deeply loved by the people, and the reputation is excellent, and the other two families respect the Xie family!

The Feng family is an old family in Fuping County, which can be described as deep-rooted, and there are no high-ranking officials and dignitaries in the family, most of them are some pen officials and petty officials, but they are widely distributed, and even in the prefect's yamen in Weinan, there are people from the Feng family. It is said that the rich can not be more than three generations, and the Feng family can stand tall in a hundred years, and it does have his merits.

The ancestral training of the Feng family is the diversion of expenses, and the brothers of each generation are divided except for the eldest son, and they will not divide too much family property, which will not cause the Feng family to split because of the competition for family property.

Among the people who were separated, some declined, and some of them set up their own doors, and the Feng family watched and helped each other, after generation after generation of development, a situation of blossoming everywhere was formed, and the Feng family was the most feared when Xie Ping first served as the county commander.

The Feng family is mainly engaged in rice noodles and tea business, and the business has expanded to a wide range, and there are Feng family's stores in Weinan Mansion. It is no exaggeration to say that the Feng family does not sell rice for a day, and there are many families in Fuping County who cannot eat.

The Qiao family is the weakest of the three families, and the reason why they can be ranked with the other two is because the Qiao family has a household servant, and he often comes back to see it during the New Year's holidays, which earns a lot of face for the Qiao family. Qiao's family mainly operates some inns and restaurants, and the largest restaurant in Fuping County, "Qingyueju", is opened by Qiao's family, and most of the businessmen who come to do business from other places settle here.

The restaurant is mixed, but it is a good place to find out the news, especially when the tea festival will be held here in a few days, and there is an endless stream of businessmen from other places these days.

Cao Wei and the three of them found a remote location by the window in the lobby, ordered a pot of good bird's tongue, and then drank it slowly. Zhang Meng is a rough man, he is like a cow when he drinks tea, and he doesn't even spit out tea in the end, so Cao Wei and Qian Ning can see that they are really embarrassed to take him out!

Zhang Meng didn't realize it, drank two cups of tea in a row, and then shouted: "Little Er, two more pots of tea!" ”

The shopkeeper happily made two pots of tea, for fear that the guests at this table would regret it, this bird's tongue is the best tea in the store, and it is naturally very expensive, it is good to be able to sell three or five pots all year round.

Cao Wei was a little distressed, he had no interest in tasting tea at all, he saw that Zhang Meng had a headache, and silently said "ramming" in his heart, and then brought the last pot of tea on the table, poured a cup for himself and Qian Ning, took a sip slowly, and pointed his ears to listen to the conversation of other guests.

“…… The tea competition was held in Fuping County, this Fuping County, there are three, there are also three evils, you should pay attention to doing business here, don't provoke them! ”

"Brother Chen is cautious, but he doesn't know that trouble comes from his mouth......"

Cao Wei picked up the teapot with a smile, got up and came to the next seat, and said: "The two brothers are invited, in Xia Panfu, they first came to Fuping County to do business, and they all said that they would go out to rely on friends, I don't know if I can invite the two of you to drink a cup of tea today?" ”

Both of them are in their thirties, one is slightly thin and has short hair, and the other is wearing a staff suit, short stature, some fat, and looks very festive. The two seem to be young, but they have their own bearing, and they don't dare to slack off.

The thin merchant arched his hand and said, "This son is invited, under Yan Liang Chen Gui, this is my friend Wu Kong......"

"Wukong? Big brother? ”

The round-faced officer said with a dark face: "Wu, Wu Zixu's Wu ......"

Cao Wei poured a cup of tea for the two members, and said: "I just heard that the two brothers talked about the three evils of Fuping County, the younger brother has just arrived, and it is inevitable that he will be a little reckless in doing things, and I will ask the two brothers to give me more advice." ”

The thin merchant took a sip of tea and said, "Brother Xian is polite, when we go out, we businessmen naturally have to take care of each other, what kind of business does Brother Xian do?" ”

Cao Wei said quietly: "Sell wine!" The family has opened a wine shop. ”

"The locals have a good personality and like to drink, but the virtuous brother is a good business...... "The thin merchant suddenly lowered his voice and said, "But there are three people to pay attention to when doing business in Fuping County, also known as the three evils." The first evil is Feng Huai, the son of the Feng family, this person is narrow-minded, and he will repay him, and he often oppresses foreign businessmen who come here to do business, seeking people and goods, and some businessmen who have no backer often lose their money! ”

Cao Wei said curiously: "I heard that the magistrate of Fuping County is honest and honest, don't you care?" ”

The round-faced member sighed and said, "What's the matter?" Mrs. County Ling is Feng Huai's aunt, even if the county order wants to rectify it, can the person next to him agree? Last year, the county magistrate also wanted to marry his daughter to Feng Huai, but on the day of the wedding, the bride suddenly disappeared, making Feng Huai lose face. There are rumors outside that the daughter of the county order already has a lover, and she is unwilling to marry Feng Huai, so she made the move of escaping from marriage......"

Cao Wei coughed embarrassedly, quickly opened the topic, and said, "What about the other two evils?" ”

"The second evil is Qiao Shanshan, the young lady of the Qiao family, I heard that the appearance is excellent, but in Fuping County, it is the most arrogant and unreasonable, and the soft whip in one hand makes it extremely familiar, if it hits her, the skin and flesh are light. This Miss Qiao is over twenty years old and no one dares to marry, who dares to marry a tiger and go home? There are also rumors that this Miss Qiao looks down on men in the world and does not want to get married.

However, although this woman is arrogant, she has never heard of bullying the people, and she has a very good personal relationship with the young lady of the county order, and when Feng Huai greeted her husband that day, she was whipped twice by the disgruntled Miss Qiao, and I don't know who can subdue this rouge horse in the end, and the man who married her is probably only pressed below the bed. ”

Fantasizing about the appearance of Miss Qiao riding a horse and whipping in bed, Cao Wei couldn't help but shudder: "Then who is this third evil?" ”

The thin businessman was full of regret, and said: "The third evil is Xie Yufei, the son of the county order, this son was kind to people in the early years, and he has the style of Xie County's order, but in the past two years, he has been very close to Feng Huai, Feng Huai beat people and robbed things, and even took him with him when he went to the kiln, and Xie Gongzi already had a reputation for being a gentleman." If you want to do business in Fuping County, don't provoke these three people! ”

"Thank you two brothers for mentioning something, I have to take over some goods in the future, so I won't accompany the two brothers to drink tea, and say goodbye!"

Cao Wei got up to leave, the two businessmen gave each other away, Qian Ning saw that Cao Wei had already walked to the door, quickly threw down a silver ingot, and pulled Zhang Meng to follow.